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7My voice through the prison walls By: Inmate Ricky Vincent Pendleton II I think rehabilitation is a propaganda word used by the lawmakers to cover their motives Exploiting the inmates in a business venture. The whole prison industry is a "for profit" industry; from my reading is a billion dollars industry. How am I supposed to cope in here and seeing the corrupt acts of people...? I have to control the things in my life. Rehabilitation is on the individual prisoner, he/she has to d...

"A Black Man Trapped" The life some of us live, is the cause for our paranoia, pain and stress. Our parents think that we're insane and that we're not capable of learning life. life is the key to success, but with success there's a serious price, which perhaps many men don't want. I represent for the life that made me a problem child and the soldiers on the streets who are trying to survive the jungle that goes on in the ghettos/or jungle. They don't believe...

A Convicts Prayer Oh God please hear this convicts plea And continue to lay your hands heavily upon me For shive and shank equals my rod and staff But if death should call, will you intercede on my behalf Will you touch my spirit and hold my soul Keep me program enrolled and eligible for parole Take me off the docket of any further days in court While at the same time keeping me secluded from the disciplinary reports Make my environment safe and friendly Whether at a level five state prison o...

No Title A day before my 18th birthday I was arrested in Milwaukee WI for possession with intent to deliver. I was sentenced to 9 years under the Wisconsin Truth in Sentencing Act. The judge ordered me to do 3 years inside and 6 years on mandatory supervision. Most of the 3 years was spent at the Robert E. Ellsworth Correctional Center (R.E.E.C.C.). At REECC I obtained my HSED in 2002. To get into the Office Assistant college course through Gateway Tech, I had to steal a cookie. My being empl...

Keith Burley Pennsylvania A Definition of freedom One form of freedom is the ability to recognize the truth. For when someone has the ability to recognize the truth, he is free from an intellectual perspective, and a rational perspective. It is a form of "MENTAL ENSLAVEMENT" when someone knows the truth, yet does not recognize it. Consider someone with an addiction to cigarette's. He knows that they are poisonous in that they cause cancer and other ailments. However, if this pe...

D. Marquise Adams Legal Aide Kentucky State Penitentiary 10 January 2015 A Descent into Wrongful Convictions Any professional whether in law, having a PHD, or the common layman has knowledge that the prison population is growing rapidly. Even greater is the amount of Americans that realize the spike in cases where convictions are based on faulty DNA evidence. Yes, the Nation is a World Leader in many things and incarceration tops the list, which are mostly due to wrongful convictions. I predi...

A HEARTFELT THANK-YOU I am an inmate presently housed at the Medium Security ECI-East Prison in Westover, Maryland. It is the largest prison in the state however, being located on the Eastern Shore it often feels like being in another country. I have been incarcerated for 30 years and in that time I have seen the health care providers go from very good to very bad, to what it is now “Mediocre”. As you can guess just about any inmate can give you some horror stories about the medical care in p...

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful By Shakkir Talib Muj ahid A Message to the Incarcerated Muslim I am sad today, for the Message I bring has been shouted through the halls and walls of these universities for years. “Say, You Believe in Allah and Stand ﬁrm on it.” .1 don’t know that many of you know what this actually means. It appears that you have let your life of anger, deceit, distrust, hate, greed and lust for power, control and fame make you b...

No Title A professor once asked me if I believed in evolution or history repeating itself. I leaned towards history repeating itself, after all evolution just seems to be the same ole same ole with a few tweaks to make a thing modern. Take the U.S. history for instance, the slave trade and indentured servants are today called prisoners. When the Fore Fathers hammered out the Constitution in that hot sweaty room they had to compromise. The southern states wanted to count their slaves in the po...

A Soup In here is maybe more important than a new pair of state boots See it's viewed as being more than just a meal Because a certain amount of them could seal or break a deal Their legal tender and a tangible currency Far more that sustenance for when one is hungry They control how the population reacts Right next to nutty bars, honey buns, and cookie racks But yet and still Rhaman remains at the top No doubt that without which all the movement would stop Everyday with the passing of e...

Administrative Segregation: Is It Torture??? I have been in segregation since April 29, 2016, at this time I have been in my dismal crypt for 6 months. I am just beginning an indefinite term. My earliest possible release is September 9, 2017, which'll be 17 months before I even qualify for release into a 'transitional housing unit'. I could be in the hole nearing 2 years or an indeterminate term if the Deputy Director of Missouri's prison system grants me the 'privile...

. " America's Succubus V ( The Nightmare of the Criminal Justice System in the United States ) An Essay By: L.Francis . If what I have been led to believe is true,that great works of Art,Music,and Poetry are birthed through the endurance of loss,despair,and great suffering,then the creative gifts that I have to offer the world should at this point be phenominal... Since the Summer of 2002 I have endured the complete and total loss of my freedom,parts of my humanity,and bits and peic...

Taryanne Rahmaan, "As a Black Muslim" Coffee Creek Correctional Facility As a Black muslim, in prison where I have three strikes... (one, I am Black, two. I am muslim, three. I am female) everyday is a struggle. As if it isn't enough to just take my freedom, they want to take my dreams, my hope, and my faith I may still have. They refuse to give me pork substitutes or anything resembling a Halal diet. They deny me the right to cover my hair outside of my cell, and each year ram...

AT THE ROOT OF MASS - INCARCERATION (LIES THE KEY TO CRIMINALJUSTICE REFORM] Did you realize the ”Mass - Incarceration Movement" started around the 100th anniversary celebrating the enactment of the "Jim Crow” laws of 1890? We should also keep in mind that in the early nineties Hillary Clinton called inner city youth "super predators" suggesting our youth are criminals who need to be contained. Bill Clinton (then President) signed "Three Strikes” crime bill in 1994 ap...

[No Title] 05/27/2015 At the time my friend and brotha ask me to write something about my experiences I gladly jumped at the chance. After going through my thoughts I began to hesitate. I asked myself had I turned into a bitter old man. I know I sometimes sound this way to myself. At the time of this writing I am 53 years of age, and I have been locked up 33 years this August 16, 2015. My sentence is Capital murder and I received Life with No Parole for 50 years. I had no prior record. For th...

By: Richard Atkins, Jr. 9-21-18 California -Essay- “Avoid Stress At All Cost” First and foremost, you occupy most of your time with what you love. That can be family, kids, your girlfriend/or wife, a certain television show etc. That’s how you avoid dwelling on things that’s out of your control. For example: I lost many friends growing up in a gang, with the notorious crips, and I started to feel that God didn’t love me. So I ignored their funerals as if they was still with us. By missing the...

Because We All Wear White Because we all wear white You view me with a prejudice mind sight I am seen as being less than what I am And what I am at the very least is a human So that should afford me at least creation's minimum But I cannot seem to get that from them Instead I am treated with a predetermined low standard allowed to have no opinion so I feel like a coward I might wear them but I am not a scrub Outside of this place I am wanted, needed, and loved Under normal ciurcumstances...

"Being Muslim in prison" I have to share with America how Muslim are treated in State and Federal prison. The Muslim population in prison is fairly large. It consists of Sunni, Muslim, Moorish American and Nation of Islam. I'm a Sunni Muslim. I follow the Holy Qur'an, and the Sunnah of prophet Muhammad peace be unto him. We are required to make 5 Salats a day. That's 5 prayers at a fixed time. But the Muslims are hated because most of the guards were in the military a...

Beyond Bars: Voices of NLG Jailhouse Lawyers By Teddy Lewis This moment feels like a maze which holds many rooms yet only one of them holds the key Lately I notice that so many men like to rip and run to the yard. And try to impose their will on various things, from lifting weights to lifting a telephone. Suddenly I came to notice that my life was without legal balance because my lack of legal know how left me stagnated and without true hope. One day someone came to me and said "why&quot...

Blood in my Eyes By: Ricky Vincent Pendleton II I see dead people, not physically but one of a mental death. In this prison people are very gloomy. They accept being incarcerated and warehoused by people. No fight to grasp their sanity instead they submit to the way of this prison. Their ways and actions do reveal this to me. That is way most sell their soul because of self-hate that they are affected with. Faith is far away from them as the stars even farther. I see how they look forward to ...

Brandon Bowden Ohio "Breaking Point" In Ohio's Department of Rehabilitation - n- Corrections...I've spent the past ten years of my, at times, "seemingly pointless" existence, trapped. Racism, violence, drugs, death, distress, frustration, ... and so many more aspects of the modern day prison environment, are elements that make this place... a living hell! The picture I'm about to paint for you... "the reader"... no matter who, or where you are... I...

CALIFORNIA INMATE PAY RATE SCHEDULE One would think that it is well past the time for a increase in prisoner pay rates in the CDCR? I would say yes, however Prisoncrats and Legislators naturally would say no! Never the less, lets examine the facts that over the years have come into play. When one considers the fact that the Department over the past 25 plus years have been authorized in several ways to dig deep into your meager resources and your family and friends wallet! In fact the most sig...

Camp Mercy Welcome to camp mercy Home of both the hungry and the thirsty A relative inmate sanctuary Where times being done with limited worries A safe haven for the perpetrators And those with PRIA type behaviors Where the dogs are all bark and no bite Regardless of all the bravado and the hype A place where the "Convicts" hands are tied Because Baldwin County Court House is only a short ride See we don't want to start over But at least here we don't have to look over our...